| lolage said: @richardhutnik Halo is a rip-off (did you play Alien Versus predator? some weapons even feel the same and the invisibility power-up etc) I don't say Halo is a bad game, but it didn;'t change anything, unlike other games that failed commercially. play undying than tell me halo is a good game, it is still good by today's standards (actually ageless and immortal )better yet play unreal (1998) |
It doesn't matter if Halo is like another game (and I had Aliens vs Predator on the Jaguar and would be hard pressed to say it is the same thing). What matters with Halo is that it worked, and because it worked, it put console FPS on the map as a major genre. I say this, acknowledging other FPS titles may be better. BUT, I would go with the original Unreal in saying that. The original Unreal didn't have a lot of enemies in it, and the ones they had is required a lot of shots to kill. The engine was impressive at the time. BUT, shooters you mention didn't give the feeling of being in the battlefield fighting with other troops, the way Halo did.
You are writing someone who played a LOT of FPS titles (and still have them somewhere), and knows of this.
Again, Halo is Halo because it put CONSOLE FPS on the map. It works. You don't have to be the best to do this, just the first to show up with the right mix of controller type and also performance. And then throw in multiplayer.
